“Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties” was a 3-day conference beginning on a Friday, June 6, 2008, and ending on Sunday, June 8, 2008. There were 21 speakers with each speaker given 45 minutes to 1 hour for his speech, including Q&A. There were no concurrent sessions — all speeches were given to the entire audience.

Volume 5:
“Empire, War, and the Greater Good”
by Anthony Gregory
“Closing Guantanamo: How to Do It (and How Not to Do It)”
by Joanne MarinerVolume 6:
“The Future of Libertarianism”
by Justin Raimondo
“Imperial Crusades: The Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy”
by Alexander Cockburn

Volume 7:
“The 2008 Candidates and Civil Liberties — A New Path or More of the Same?”
by Glenn Greenwald
“The Rapid Decline of Transparency and Privacy in America”
by Jonathan Turley

Volume 8:
“War Is Peace and Other Things the Government Wants You to Believe”
by Sheldon Richman
“A Collapsing Empire — Opportunities for Restoring the Republic”
by Karen Kwiatkowski

Our Reading List

Prepared by Richard M. Ebeling

Austrian economics is a distinctive approach to the discipline of economics that analyzes market forces without ever losing sight of the logic of individual human action. Two of the major Austrian economists in the 20th century have been Friedrich A. Hayek, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Ludwig von Mises. Posted below is an Austrian Economics reading list prepared by Richard M. Ebeling, economics professor at Northwood University in Midland and former president of the Foundation for Economic Education and vice president of academic affairs at FFF.